Absent For A While

We have escaped to Arizona for a while. The snow and cold was gettng to our sensibilities so we're now enjoying temps in the 70's, sunny skies, music and art. We will be back into our easels and tubes within the next three days and hope to have new stuff to post.

Studio Oil

Decided on another landscape challenge for this very cold day. The studio is most comfortable. This is 9X12 Oil on Hardboard. In keeping with the times maybe I'll call it, "Bale Out." Dan

Studio Oil

I decided to have a go at the December Landscape Challenge from WetCanvas! this afternoon. There are three choices and I felt I'd been doing enough snow for a while so here's a scene from the Adirondacks. It's hot off the easel and there is glare from the sticky, wet oil. 9X12 on hardboard. Dan

Three Point Nine

Thank you BettyMay. As you might find, I put in a little time at the same spot this morning in different light - to say the least! This one took 50 minutes partly owing to the the fact that immediately after I'd drawn in some guidelines with a thinned brush I tipped the panel upside down onto the palette surface. So there I was, scraping off five different-colored blobs of fresh paint. One of the hazards of working in a cramped space with pochade box in your knees. Oh well, this is still more fun than working.

Field Oil Sketches

have a little plein air oil sketch to get on here in the WIP stage. This is done from the pickup cab, parked in the same place as Three Point Nine on 25 Dec. Conditions were entirely different: fog, haze, frost and COLD. But warmer than yesterday. By the time I took the photo through the windscreen, the fog had lifted somewhat so things were coming into focus. I'll put up the photo too and then continue work on the 5X7 Oil. Dan

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You don't have to be a plein air nut, but it helps! Ventured out for a while this morning before the temp had quite inched up to four degrees F. It began warming soon afterward though so I was comfortable in the passenger seat of my old Toyota pickup. This cold, snowy little scene is on the east edge of our town and I just like the way the contra jour light was finding its way through those bare trees. The sunlight was filtered but still quite strong. 8X10 Oil on hardboard. Dan